96 CVIII. PHYTOLACCACEiE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [^Mohlaua. 



Millen, 92 ! Roland, 36 ! Otto, Millen, 20 1 Ikoradu, Schlechter, 13002 ! Oloke 

 Meji, Foster, 283 ! Abeokuta, Irving, 73 ! Angiama, Barter, 196. Cameroons : 

 Ambas Bay, Mann, 775! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1160 ! 1344 ! 



]bower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; banks of the River Cuango, about 

 Sange, JVelwitsch, 2440 ! at the cataracts of the River Cuango and by streams in 

 Mata de Quibangn, Welwitsch, 2440b 1 



IVile land. Xiamniam, Schweinfurth, 3064! Uganda: east side of I^ake 

 Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8070 ! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7368 I Brown, 47 ! 

 Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7517 ! 



XtKozaml). Blst. German East Africa: Tanga; Lutindi, Hoist, 3416 ! 



Also in tropical America, Madagascar, and naturalised in Ceylon. 



2. MICROTEA, Sw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 82. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 5-partite; segments equal or 

 nearly so, usually ereot in fruit. Stamens 3-8, hypogynous ; filaments 

 free, filiform; anthers subglobose, 2-celled. Ovary 1 -eel led ; styles 

 2-5 free or united at the base, papillose above. Fruit obovoid, more 

 or less warted or spiny, seated on the persistent perianth. Seed ver- 

 tical ; embryo peripheral, surrounding the central farinaceous albumen. 



Annual, usually branched, herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. 



Flowers small, white, in long slender spikes or racemes ; bracts mem- 

 branous, persistent. 



Species about 10, chiefly in tropical South America ; 3 in South Africa, 1 of 

 which extends into the tropics. 



1. M. tennissima, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, nied. An 

 annual herb, 4-10 in. high, with the appearance of Reseda. Leaves 

 linear, up to 1 in. long and J lin. wide, mucronate, brittle when dry, 

 glabrous. Flowers in spikes up to 7 in. long ; bracteoles 2-3 under each 

 flower, about as long as the perianth. Perianth o-partite, 1 lin. in diam. ; 

 segments subregular, obovate, finely 1 -nerved. Stamens 3-4 ; filaments 

 longer than the perianth ; anthers subglobose, dorsitixed. Ovary ovoid, 

 warted, i lin. high ; styles 2-4 ; ovule campylotropous on a basal 

 funicle. "Fruit obovoid, 1 lin. long, mucronate. — Lojyhiocarpus tenuis- 

 simus, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. xv. .')0, t. 14(13, figs. 10-11. 



XiO'wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Omupauda, IFwZ/*- 

 horst, 33! Oshando, Schiriz, 900! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Ngamiland : Okavaugo Valley, 3000 ft., Lugard, 277 ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



3. PHYTOLACCA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 84. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious. Perianth green or slightly 

 coloured, 5-partite ; segments equal, oblong, obtuse, spreading or 

 reflexing at a late stage. Stamens 5-25, inserted at the base of the 

 perianth, rudimentary in the female flowers ; filaments subulate, some- 



